ClydeR
04-26-2014, 09:40 PM
At the moment the five ducks were run over and killed by a New Hampshire state representative, they were doing exactly what they are known for in Nashua: greeting guests at the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
Then the car, driven by David Campbell, a state representative from Nashua who had been inside the hotel bar having dinner and drinks, came through the drop-off area, going the wrong direction and traveling about 15 miles per hour, a police report would later note. As the car ran over the flock, there was a “a scream, a thump, and a commotion,” one witness said.
What followed during the next few months is a complicated saga that has produced more questions than answers. It is all laid out in a complex 14-page report issued by the New Hampshire attorney general’s office Thursday.
Elements read like a mystery novel — from an angry confrontation (with an airline pilot who had befriended the ducks), to an elusive suspect, to a late-night ride with a friend who happened to be a police commissioner.
On Wednesday, the day before the report was issued, Campbell, 56, announced he would not seek reelection. Thomas Pappas, a Nashua police commissioner, resigned from the police commission in February.
More... (http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/04/24/the-death-five-ducks-new-hampshire-and-report/lXHj2nonquNVuwi23Sr5IK/story.html)
There is an obvious moral to this story.
Then the car, driven by David Campbell, a state representative from Nashua who had been inside the hotel bar having dinner and drinks, came through the drop-off area, going the wrong direction and traveling about 15 miles per hour, a police report would later note. As the car ran over the flock, there was a “a scream, a thump, and a commotion,” one witness said.
What followed during the next few months is a complicated saga that has produced more questions than answers. It is all laid out in a complex 14-page report issued by the New Hampshire attorney general’s office Thursday.
Elements read like a mystery novel — from an angry confrontation (with an airline pilot who had befriended the ducks), to an elusive suspect, to a late-night ride with a friend who happened to be a police commissioner.
On Wednesday, the day before the report was issued, Campbell, 56, announced he would not seek reelection. Thomas Pappas, a Nashua police commissioner, resigned from the police commission in February.
More... (http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/04/24/the-death-five-ducks-new-hampshire-and-report/lXHj2nonquNVuwi23Sr5IK/story.html)
There is an obvious moral to this story.